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DJ Khaled Part 1

Published Nov 8, 2023, 5:01 AM

Legendary hip-hop producer DJ Khaled brings a whirlwind of stories and insights to Club Shay Shay. He offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the incredible experience of recording "God Did" with Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and Rick Ross, showcasing the immense trust and chemistry within the collaboration. DJ Khaled expresses his deep gratitude to Jay-Z for performing at the Grammy Awards, a moment of appreciation that he's shared over 100 times.

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Hello, welcome to a special edition of Club sh on the Road. I am your host, Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriud of Club shashe and the guy that's stopping by for a great conversation. He really doesn't need any introduction, but I'm gonna give him some of his flowers right now. He's a multi talented music producer, a world renowned DJ, Grammy Award winning mega producer, multi platinum recording artist, a music industry visionary, a global figure, pop sensation bona fide hit maker, New York Times bestselling author.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walker Fame.

A motivational speaker, a guru, a positively a philanthropist. Now he's a golfer, actor, entrepreneur, record label executive, radio personality, innovative influencer, the anthem king, the Quincy Jones of hip hop and RB none other than DJ Kalt.

Call it man, cat Man, I'm like sitting here like man, it's been a good man.

First of all, I love you, brother.

I'm a big fan of me.

Thank you.

You know you a legend. But I just love everything you do.

Man. It's the energy you put out there.

And when I got invited on the show today, I was so exciting. You know how to get a haircut when you hold out, Yeah, I was getting getting right. So I appreciate the love it and thank you for coming to Miami.

Man, Thank you for having me. Man.

When I reached out. Man, when I DM you and ask you, would you be willing you?

Like?

Bro?

You serious, right and you? And I told people I was sitting down to do this interview with you. It's like, what's he like? I said what you see on social media? Positively, I'm talking about bless up brother. Hey, congrats. I appreciate everything that you've done. So thank you for allowing me and my team to come down.

And do this interview anytime, anytime. And I'm really excited about this. I told her my queen I was doing this, and everybody's just a big fan of you.

Man. You for the people.

Man, we love you well.

Thank you for I don't know if you drink or anything, but I appreciate you.

This is my drink to you and all your success and many more years of success.

Appreciate you.

Bless up brother. Let's get it started. It's gonna start a little cappuccino. And what's the name of the drink.

This is Laportier by Shay. This is my own Kanyac.

It tastes great with cappuccino. To tell you, so you gonna that That's what I'm trying to tell you.

Hear thatcino, right, that's right.

Let's start with the golf tournament first. Yes, what made you decide started your foundation? What does this foundation represent?

It represents the young world, kids, the community, but also bringing awareness with the golf, bringing awareness to golf, more diversity. But uh, the foundation, the heart of it is to help the kids, give them scholarships, get involved in everything in the community. I have a team that we work seven days a week, non stop.

Every day.

We have to do something to uplift the kids and give back to the kids. You gotta understand. I come from, you know, being on the radio community Radio nine nine jams in Miami. So I've been part of the Miami community from day one. I started with Luke on the radio station ninety nine jams and just all the beautiful things that we do in Miami and Miami. One thing we do with community driven, we hometown. We support each other. So when you know more busses came in my life, I made it a priority and my wife as well made it a priority to give back to the kids. And it's not just the education we're doing STEM programs. We're also touching the people. We're going in the community, and we're also collaborating with other charities to uplift the community. And this right here to collaborate with Michael Jordan's. Wow, you know how much community work he does and to do this Golf Classic.

What I love about the Golf Classic is it brought us all.

Together unity to do things for the young world every single day. That's the priority the kids.

What made you decide to take up golf?

Okay, so I used to play golf. Well, I didn't play. I used to mess around. My friend used to live on a golf course and we used to go to his house before we went to school and we just mess around. I had a natural swing that was in middle school. But then about pandemic time, my people, with my friends and my neighbors like yours, go golfing. And I went the other day two years ago, and I swung the driver and I had that natural swing in me. And you know, we the best. So everything we do, we're the best at it. You know That's what God, that's this with you're saying. So of course I caught the bug. And not even just that. It helps me mentally, spiritually, brings me more joy, It cleanses my vision. Men, he has a no distory. It's a lot going on in the world. So when you're on the golf course, you just feel at peace and that zen. But at the same time, it's one of the hardest sports in the world, so you're out there fighting yourself. Like Michael Jordan, I heard him on an interview saying, it's like fighting yourself on the golf course. You get better. So every day I'm getting better and better.

But what I love.

Most about it is it's like life. It's not easy, but it's beautiful.

Did you approach the game of golf like you did everything in your life? Sense, I'm going all in here. I'm going to get the most knowledge that I possibly can, surround myself with people that can teach me this game, help me understand this game, so I can be good at this game like I am at all things in my life.

So you know one thing about call it is if I love something, I don't know how to do it halfway.

Okay, So I want to go pro. You know what I'm saying.

I want to go pro. I want to go pro. And that's just basically saying the heights of the dedication, the ambition, and the passion that I put into golf the same way I put it into my music career. I love golf that much where I play seven days a week. Some people yoga, some people exercise, some people run, some people jog. I play golf, right, And the thing is that God put me on that golf course because you know, I'm starting to I'm happy, I look beautiful, God bless me. But now I'm starting to carve. I'm shaping it up. So two months ago was two eighty seven. Today I'm sixty eight. Wow, And that's just from you know, walking the course, swinging, swinging, But that's like every day and and and golf helps me skip a few meals because I'm so into the game. So I might skip breakfast once in a while. So I'm feeling healthy. But at the same time, you know that addiction, Yeah, yeah, yes, that word and morphins and dorphins like it's I get all that, yes, But then I come home and and then when you eat that cheeseburger, it tastes different because you're on the golf course all day, you know, especially when that toast is like it's a little Chris beauty, and then that brush letters and you bite it.

It just tastes it right.

And then when I go in the studio, I just after I get out the shower, I go in the studio, put some Jordan shorts on and the white tea and some flip flocks, and I just go in there and I just feel so refreshed and relaxed and so focused. And then being around my family. My kids love it, and my wife is happy, and you know, it's just a blessing. Man, Like, golf really bless me.

You know what I'm saying, Where are you more at peace now on the golf course or the studio?

Man?

That's like, that's like, like you know what I'm saying. You're trying to like the kids. It's like which kid you.

I mean?

To be honest with you, I would say both. And that's just the honest strut the golf course. I'll tell you a story, like one day I got down playing golf and I was in my living room and I'm chilling and I got a call and like, like I O would see that person wasn't on the same energy.

Right, I'm in.

A great place right right right, I'm vibing like you like and the Blu skies. I'm like, man, like, and it wasn't thathing crazy about saying do me do do me? In faith, I'm gonna call you right back. I actually ran to the golf course just to sit in the thing because that's where I feel like, Yo, I'm telling all my people around me, if you not coming with this, protect your blessing and this this vibe to go to the next level. That's where I'm at my life, in my life right now, going to the next level and that and by doing that, you have to protect your.

Blessings, right.

And I'm protecting my happiness because I have to be happy because I have beautiful boys and I got a beautiful queen, and my job is to make sure they're happy, right, So I gotta feel good to make them happy.

So if somebody comes around calling with negativity, oh.

No, I tell them out the gate. And it ain't even being rude, especially if somebody I love, and sometimes they don't even realize it, I pull them aside. You're browlm in a different place. I golf every morning. Call me if you want to golf, you know, call me if you want to take things to the next level, call me with some great I don't I'm trying to explain to everybody I'm in peace.

You know, you're a point in your life, yes, and.

You might get what I'm saying, But in my life, I'm at a place where I'm at peace.

You know.

I represent love, but at the same time, I'm just like really at peace, you know, and I want to protect that. And it's because you know, with joy people think that. You know, for me, joy is showing gratitude to God, Okay. And when you show gratitude to God, you know, and you be grateful, it turns into joy with your activities and the things that you put your mind to. And do you know the way you talk, the way you speak, the way you move, the way you eat, everything gotta change if you want to level up. And I'm protecting these blessings. As far as energy, you know, this world is a lot going on. It's just a lot going on, and I gotta protect my energy because you know, I guess golf also helps for me mental health, not saying that I have some mental health problems and no, but I can tell you right now I'm more.

But it keeps you in a great place, right.

And that's a and that's a that's a beautiful feeling. When you have that feeling, you want to continue that feeling.

Right, You're the king of anthems. Another one, bless up, keep going. We the best God did.

God did all the.

Anthems that you started and created, and you hear everybody seeing them.

What's your favorite anthem?

Ah, man, my favorite one. I can't give you that favorite one because it's so many. But you know, you have records like all I do is win. You know, that's a winner's national anthem. Yeah, we can't have to say that.

You know.

Then you got records like Wild Thoughts, and then you got records like me and Drake Ross and Little Wayne I'm long one, yes, you know. Then you got records where like every chance I get, you know, with me, little Baby and Little Dirt. It's so many, you know, I don't know if you know. I have thirteen albums in the can. I put out thirteen albums. I'm working on my fourteenth album, and I'm proud of myself and the reason why I'm saying that because I want the young world to hear this. Because in the game that I'm in. Yes, some people can't make it past their first song or the first album. Or make it past a sophomore album. I'm working on my fourteenth album, and everybody wants to work with you, Calid, I mean, and I want to work with them, you know I'm saying. And you know the blessing is that people know when you walk in a room with me, you know I'm a hard worker. The energy gotta be right in the studio. That's the only way I will work. And I work with like how can I say, like my records. I tell artists all the time when you make a Cali record, not only do I want it to be an anthem. You know if you listen to radio, you go to the club, or you listen to some music on your phone, and you'll hear music and you're like this, I want my record to be like this right, it stands out And if you listen to my anthems, it has that Kalid. It's a Calid thing and you only can get it from Calid. You know what I'm saying. I'm speaking to third party, but I have to do that because I'm representing myself right now. But at the same time, it's like, it's a blessing to be able to work with all my favorite artists and all the new artists too, coming up in the game and meeting them and showing each other respect. It's just a blessing because I love making music and when you love what you do, you go all out.

Well, I can't say this about you, is that your records will stand this chest of time, because like you said, all.

I do is win. God did are the one you did defeat with Kanye.

When you go into the studio, are you thinking this got that, this has this.

Is Kalid on it. Yes, it's got to be Calid approved.

Yeah, yeah, I mean when I go in the studio, what I do is I start we make the music first, the production if it's me or me and my team, or if it's me and collaborating with other great producers.

Okay, I just.

Focus on the sonics, the sound of the way I want my album to sound on the records of sound musically, and then I started getting into some concept and ideas before I call an artist to do any vocals because I like the way I do work. And you could ask artists when they walk in the studio and I play a record, that's it. That's the one, okay, Like it ain't nothing to talk about it, right, Okay, that's how I make sure of that, right, Like I'm not here to expels, man, I'm not here Like maybe no, if I call you, that's the one, and I'm blessed with the artist to feel that energy that I'm presenting to him. But at the same time, no, that's the one, you know what I'm saying. So it's a blessing man, because if you think about it, like God did we turned the Grammys into the Holy Grail close out the Grammys. My brother jay Z did like an eight minute verse on there with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross Friday and John Legend. When I made that record, not only was it sent from God, you know what I'm saying to get hold to do that was such a blessing for him to do the.

Song and to perform it.

He doesn't even do that for himself. No, I mean you know this, I'm not making this up. Like guys, like I pinched myself when I pray and I think I text jay Z out of nowhere and to say thank you a hundred times a month just because I know this is like like when we was at backstage before we go onstage and we in the suits and I'm like.

You're looking around.

I'm looking around, like, yo, you know what I'm saying. You see what's going on. So those blessings, I know my fans appreciate it, and that's what keeps me going. My fans expect me to perform at the highest level and expect me to deliver once I delivered so many times, so consistently throughout the years. My fans, like right now summertime, haven't dropped the record yet, and they know I'm you do do you do know? I say, it could be winter and I could turn it the summer. That's what Cavin does. So I'm about to drop some new music soon. But my fans, I hear them out there and I see them. They tell me. They're screaming, let's go golfing. They're also screaming, cal, where's the anthem? Because I know you coming. I'm coming. You know what I'm saying that, my fans is what keep me going. I'm saying as far as the music, when you did God did yes? Did everybody come up with their own lyrics? Did Wayne do his own thing? Oh do his own thing?

Just at the beat?

Yeah?

So God did it?

Was my man Friday sent me just the chords and him singing God did. Obviously I already put in the universe. You know, if you follow me on social media, they don't believe in us. God did, Yes, So he came and sent me a thing with chords and he was singing the hook of God did. So I'm like, oh man, this is dope. So originally I was going to keep it as an interlude, just like that with nothing. Then I started listening to it. I was say, nah, let's put let's make this into a song. So I started. We put me street Runner, We put drums on there, and you know, you know music, and just turn it into like a well, no vocals on it, besides Friday just turning into like a masterpiece, a musical masterpiece. So now it's just the beat. Now we got drums on it. Now we got instruments on it, with Friday's chords and with him singing on it. So I sent it to Ross. Oh yeah, because you know Ross is my three or five brother, and yes, my brother. You know, we go way back. You know what I'm saying. I send it to Ross, and Ross know if I send him something, you know, cut it up to something but also ROSSI was sending back that same day or that next morning, like that.

My whole career.

You know, Ross has been in every single album mine. Same of Wayne. Yes, So I sent it to Ross. I was in the Bahamas. He sent the verse back and when he said something something put me in with the sharks. Huh uh, God did when he got into that mode. You know, I'm losing my mind. You lose, not losing my mind like I'm losing my mom running around, I'm just blowing speakers. So I hit Wayne. I hit back Maine now like a man mac man. I need Wayne. You know, Wayne is family to me, and he's like, send it through. So I sent it to him. Wayne sent it back. The next morning. I get Wayne's versus. I'm like, oh my.

God, so you know you got you got.

I'm like, I'm like, yeah, the man talking, he talking, He so many bars on that. I'm like, wow, right, I'm losing my mind hit and Wayne hitting Ross. I'm so excited. So now I said, hold up, you could keep it like this and you can win big, or you could do what you do Calick. So I took a jet, I flew to New York. I found out whole was in New York. You know hoes my brother's family. I told him I need to see him. Told my to sea five minutes of your time. I'm the blessing was. I had a few hours of his time, but asked for five. He gave me a few hours. I come see him. I said, I would love to play you my album, and I would love for you to pick my album cover. I had like three options of album covers and I wanted him to pick it. I was happy with all three of them, and I was like, I want to play you my album. So the first song I played was Drake No Secret. I set it off like that. He's like, ooh, that's crazy, and then it went into God did it so now, so while God did his playing, I'm looking at him. I ain't asked him to get on here, you're looking at him, and I was like, you know, I'm trying to tell him, like and he's listening to it, so now you're hearing. And then the beat coming and Ross coming and he like, then Wayne coming. He like that, and then I purposely left an open verse with just a beat. So now the beat is playing and I see him doing this look and then I started hearing like like rapping, so Boom. When we turn the record off, he already had like four or five bars already out the head saying, already spitting some of the rod. So I was like, y'all, I really need you, you know what I'm saying. So I was being cool. So I continue to play the album right, and he's like, oh, this is not He was just loving the album, loving the album. Then we went back to God.

I did okay.

He kept listening to that. So now we popping champagne. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, now were popping champagne. I'm staying in the room with a cigar. He lighting a cigar. He doing this like you know, he ain't confirmed nothing yet. It's just a boy, so Boom. Make a long story short. On the me leaving the room, he's like, Yo, send me God did send it to me? Like I know what that means, like you know, like senator. So I'm looking at Landings like you know, you know, I gotta be cool now, you know, I gotta show my excitement, but I still gotta be like kay, yo, senate to him, and I'll never forget. He texts me and goes yo, have a book studio. I think it was like book studio at six o'clock or seven o'clock or something like that. I only got like an hour because I gotta catch a helicopter to the Hamptons. So I'm thinking, like, book the studio. He gonna he gonna do it, but he gonna get to it, like no, it might take it, you know, I don't know, but I'm gonna do it. I'm excited. He said, book studio. I mean, somebody happens, so we booked studio. He face sized me. Now, remember he said he got an hour and he got to catch the helicopter go to the Hamptons, right. You know, I don't know how that works over there, the helicopter ampler, it's a whole thing, right, and I guess it cuts off of this. I don't know, right, So he face sized me, and the song is playing in the background. He's rhyming, so I'm listening to him. He's smiling, and I'm listening to it, and I'm hearing him spit. I'm like, oh my god. But the problem is after a minute end up being two minutes, and it up be in three minutes, end up be in four minutes and up being like five minutes.

I'm like looking at him.

He's like, and I'm like what, so I forget me trying to hear the song TRUMPERRL, what's going on? I just keep hearing his voice for that gong, like I'm not.

Expecting that, right.

So he says, I gotta go catch the helicopter. He's you know, like like I did it for you. So Gouru sends me this song. So now he says, I running the studio. Now I'm putting a blench to it, and I'm losing my mind because of so many quotables, so many bars. But not even just that. I felt like he told because I'm a real jay z fan. I felt like he put his whole career of flows and and and life in one verse, you know, like the Book of Home, like you know yoga, because you know God did and then we was when we was, when I played in a record, I was like, yo, telling.

What Hove did and and he did, you know.

So it was the biggest blessing in the world. To get the song done, that was one thing, and it was the culture went nuts, right, But to be able to get the opportunity of performing at the Grammys, Right, But the thing is for him to say yes was bigger for me than just the perform because I've never seen him really do that for himself. He did that maybe a long time ago. Right, you know what I'm saying, And that's like, you know that thing you don't want to abuse the love?

Right, right?

You know what I'm saying, Like, even though I know it's love, but it's like some things is so great. Right, he felt what I felt. We had to do that for hip hop. We had to do that. It's fifty year anniversary, but not even just that. We gotta do that for hip hop. It's bigger than us.

And we did that. Right.

So he told you he had a minute. He ended up giving you eight minutes. Did you Like, I gotta put all this. I can't cut into this.

Here.

Let me tell you Wayne and Ross and Hoe those are my brothers for real, not my rat friends. Know, he's my brothers family. Like I've known him so long and like we really have real stories together, in real moments together, and those are my brothers. They would they never told me, no, it's it's and I would never tell them now. But I've worked with all artists, they might want to hear, especially when you got a hove on that they want, they might want to go fix fix, but they know if it's calid, Calid. You know, I don't like calling people saying my records to get on as a feature, you know, how to tell somebody the other day because I'm working on my new album and I said, nah, my records ain't.

Features, you get on the feature.

My records are moments, you know what I'm saying, like anthem, these are these are they're gonna talk about this forever. Our records when we work together, they played forever. The time was the moments when we come together. That's a moment. So when they found out that hole was on it, when to how to clear the record, meaning through their lawyers or their management. So I'm sure like yo, call I got hove on there, you know what I'm saying. So I'm expecting, like yo, I want to hear some more stuff to it or that nah, And everybody was just excited about it.

And the first time they heard.

It is when the world heard it. See, I work different, Shannon, I work different, and some of the new artists working with me now they're learning how I work because some of them don't understand that because I like to keep even the person that's on my record excited. I don't like people taking my record after we record they actually take it home. I usually if you do, it's because of the circumstances I had to work in your studios. But when you work with me, I don't like to let nobody have a copy of my record. But I don't want the lead and I want you to stay excited because if you listen to it every day, I might not come out for another six months. I don't know. I work off of God. God tell me when to come, So I do that for our protection and to keep us excited. So when the record, do come out excited as much as the fan is excited with your own work.

You know, I'm different chating.

There's people in this collage like you know how you got the jacket?

Yeah, you know jacket. I got a jacket in the music world.

You know what I'm saying, Like like this time I'm working on I'm trying to the message that I'm gonna put out there, and it's like you're getting like really exclusive because I haven't told nobody was working on a new album yet, right, but I am working on a new album.

Wow.

Some of the message I'm gonna put out there is that we.

Have to learn to appreciate each other. We have to appreciate each other as brothers.

And because if it's gone, don't appreciate it, then appreciate it when you got it, when you got it. You're saying, because what we're giving these people, it's not regular what you're doing. It's not regular. It's not it's not like there's a lot of people do what you're doing right now. They ain't doing what you're doing. They ain't coming with the yellow linen. And you know in the classes like that with the talk.

You know what I'm saying, the way they ain't doing it, not just telling.

You we're different, right, And I just want people not to take them for granted, because I don't. You know what I'm saying. I don't take life for gated. I pray to God every day. I don't take my friends for granted. I don't take the music I've made for granted. I act like I just started today because I know it's special, you're saying. I know when I'm doing something special, and I know when I see something special, and I know when I hear something special, so I'm gonna make sure that I love it and I treat it and I show my appreciation. And this ain't no bullshit. Excuse my language. This real life is who I am. And when I make this music, I go all out for the fans. Not just the fans that go out, go out all out for the artists.

That's on my records, right.

So that's why I keep working so consistently with the biggest artists in the world, because they know how passionate and how much I love this.

You're saying.

When I work with a jay Z or a Drake or a Little Way or a raw So or a little baby or a future I go all out, not just making it. I go all out to make sure the world can hear it. I go out there and campaign for us. I do everything. I'm not these other guys, I'm not. I'm sorry.

I just I just love me.

We love it, we love the energy. But let me ask you this. I heard the story that Michael Jackson what drove him to what he did is that he kept trying to make thriller. Thriller was once in the generation. It was once in a historical event. A lot of times historical events only happened once. That's what make them historical. So how do the DJ cally says, Okay, if I did fifteen million, whatever. If I don't do fifteen million on this one, it ain't as good if it doesn't do diamond, if it doesn't do this, if it doesn't do that, right, how do you guard against that?

CALEX?

Well, you know, you know, I never worry about the numbers. What I care about is the impact. Okay, you gonna say, some records, it's what's so beautiful our music. Some records the impact is so big that you get all the blessings in abundance from the numbers, from the impact. And then some records it's just impact in a different way where it comes from right here, and then it just starts doing this and just goes everywhere, and then it has become massive. I care about the impact of it. That's what I do when I make music, Like like I tell other day with this artist and I say, yoah, I don't make records that go pop. You I'm saying, my records they just go pop because they the biggest Like when you start trying to make a pop record. That means it's not like it's like you're you're making we create over here. I'm gonna be me and I'm gonna make sure I be true to myself and true to my music, and you love it so much that it explodes where everybody love it. Even if you don't listen to hip hop, you love it. That's the type of records I try and put my energy to make you know what I'm saying, and that's why they become anthems. You know what I'm saying. Even if you wasn't listening to to our music, you heard it. You know what I'm saying.

So that's the blessed I think.

I think when you start worrying about going diamond is when you don't go diamond.

Okay.

I think you go in there and you put your best effort and you work so hard and you pray that it connects with the people and then there's no limits after that. But you have to work hard as artist too. You can't just think that you got cool now. I mean, I don't do that.

I work. I work.

I work.

As I sit here listen to you, you don't say, well, I got jay Z I mean I got whole, I got Baby, I got a little one, I got Weezy, I got Ross, I got Drake.

I'm always gonna do this.

No, you go in like, hey, I might have the best players, but we gonna put this thing.

We gonna put this time in.

Wet I gotta put the time in. And another thing, too, is it's not about getting the best players. It's about making the best record, the great record.

A lot of.

People get it, might get a feature and get some I know, I know a lot of records where they got some of the biggest artists. That doesn't mean it's the hit, doesn't mean it's go No, it's about making the great record. What I'm saying every time I'm in the studio with the greats, listen, I'm I'm just listen. I'm good at what I do. You know what I'm saying, And even the greatest artist my hardest to push more greatness out of them the same way they would do it for me.

Right, because we're in.

The studio, I'm pushing so much greatness out of them, and they're doing the same thing to me.

You know what I'm saying.

So that's the blessing and My goal is to continue to work with Rihanna, Beyonce, J C. Drake, Little Wayne, Little Baby, Future Choying that all the people ever worked with the goals that continue to work with right, because if you continue to work with that means you did a great job.

The last time you work with us. Yes, yes, yes, I'm saying right.

So obviously we have a connection and the fans love it.

Have you ever had to tell someone they needed to do a verse over or you let it rock because you did it? Hold on that colin, you know, the bigger the guy, the bigger the egos.

Well, well I'm not gonna name names, but I've been in situations where.

You asked them to do it over.

No, I ask them not to take when it's more than a subliminal and it's not. And I'm a guy that puts people together that can usually people that usually don't work with together, I usually can get them to work together because of they know it's coming from me. It's almost a way of saying it's peace and it's love. So I make sure I try my hardest because it's still hip hop and you still gotta just like as a football player, you still gotta you know, and still talk that trash. That's just part of the game and you gotta respect that. But at the same time as I try to make sure it doesn't go to another dimension because of who I am and what I'm about, you know what I'm saying. So I love everybody. So I've been. I've been behind the scenes. I can tell you this. You know, if I ever put a documentary out, there'll be a lot of great stories of Cavid putting brothers and sisters back together that was never talking to each other, have big problems, And I was one of the guys that behind the scenes. I don't brag about it. I don't you know what I'm saying. If it's ever a doc and they want to talk about it, they can't. But I've been somebody always that so as far as somebody changed the verse, I usually get the best out of them. We have maybe tweaked some things because the song got greater in time. So I've been. I've been blessed to get the best.

When you let's just say, for the sake of argument, do you ever say tell who you have on or you just go ask nobody? Do you tay wheeze it? I got Drake, I got Ross, I got hold on this one. Or do you ever say or you was like, hey, I'm asking you to be on it. Yeah, usually I'm asking you to be on it.

And sometimes one of the artists might hear two or three people on it already because it's at that stage, right, Okay, But sometimes you got to understand, I have to come to you and I have this vision and I have and you might be the first person to get on at first, but I'm playing you a hit. You're excited, so I got to finish the vision. They find out usually later, like when the video treatment comes right, or I might bump into them. You'll by the way song done, I got block by Blind. We all excited. They know it's gonna be a vand right, but sometimes the situation.

But see, normally they know you got some heavy weights on them, so they got to come with their best. They gotta do that, got to be their best, the biggest than brightest.

I promise you. That's one thing they know. They know that we gotta we gotta get it in. We gotta get it in, and that's the blessing. It's like my album is like the All Star game. You know what I'm saying.

Yes, yeah, what I'm saying, yes, yes matter fact.

Hole said that, and he said, your Calla's albums, it's not easy, you know what I'm saying. It's like like like uh, like you know, it's like the All Stars, right, And then you know what Whole said. He said it on his own and it touched my heart because I don't be saying, but he said, it's not easy because you deal with a lot of personalities and I don't be saying that.

People don't realize that's hard.

It is because a lot of times the All Star Games, we say, the All Star Games don't live up to expectations. We look at the basketball All Star we look at baseball and football all Star Games. And even though that's the biggest and brightest stars that we have to offer, right, you're like the something to be, a lot to be.

It's not easy. So and then and and and the parts not easy. Is the beautiful thing is that when people work in the studio with me, we leave all our egos out from studio. And I'm not saying we got wrong egos, but when you're the best of.

The best, yeah, and we work I'm.

Trying to be and every chance I get, I'm trying to show you.

Like I be in the studio sometimes with artists and they're playing this stuff and I love it. No, I like literally your fan.

And I love it.

I'm like this, and I'm like, what is it my turn to play something? I do it all the time and I sit there for hours and let you know, and I love it. But when is it my turn to play something?

I got?

Oh yeah, I'm just telling you that. And that's the thing about. Look, what we're talking about is so much behind the scenes that people don't know. That's the love of it, you know, is creating this music and the things that we put into it. As far as presentation is key, you know, if I know, if I'm working with an artist, I feel like presentation is so important because you know, when I first hear it and know the vision, that's the they locked it from that moment. You good, right, you're saying right.

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